It's T-3 hours from a tragic killing of 18 kids and you're already throwing politics into this discussion? Please. If 18 kids were stabbed would you be talking about banning kitchen knives? No amount of written law is going to prevent psychopaths who want to kill innocent kids.

Your political trolling makes me sicker than this news story.

We all did this once, that's how we got here. We weren't all born admins. At one point in time you were in the same boat. Unless he does it himself, he's never gonna learn and then when shit hits the fan he's not gonna have the tools to fix it.

Follow this tutorial. If you don't like ISPConfig, try another setup on howtoforge and see how it works for you: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu-12.04-lts-apache2-bind-dovecot-ispconfig-3

XBox?

Microsoft may fail often but every now and then they hit it out of the park.

Actually, if you read the original NYT article and Mark Hachman's "critique" of it, you'll find that the NYT article technically didn't contain any inaccuracies. Hachman points out (rather bitterly) that the article doesn't talk about recent improvements in PUE, visualization, and other green movements in data center design. While I agree, the article left out some "techy" points, none of this changes the fact that data centers consume enormous amounts of energy whether you have a good PUE or not and that is the point of the article. The more data you store, the more energy you consume and it's on an enormous scale at this point and growing every day. Whether your PUE is 1 or 5, data costs energy and money and that's what the article is about.

And please, do not compare Fox News with an organization that still has journalistic integrity like the New York Times.

This is why we need to tax the rich more more than 10%.

Filing as an LLC is much easier depending on what US state you are in. LLC's were designed for this. I own several of them. I recommend filing in Delaware. It's very easy and you get charged a flat tax of $250 a year. If you do business in your own state you still have to pay state tax there but for me, I run an internet business and have no office or servers in my own state so one could argue I only need to pay taxes in Delaware.

There are two major benefits to incorporating as I see it, 1) it allows you to write off expenses against your earnings on your taxes 2) it allows you to protect your personal assets. Now, you could just file your taxes as a DBA with a schedule C without incorporating which would allow you to write off expenses without the corporation but without a corporation, if you get sued, they could come after your house, your car, your savings accounts. It's almost an insurance policy. That and it gives you a little more legitimacy with the IRS and other businesses.

To answer the original post: if you are making enough money to pay $250 a year in tax for a corporation, you should probably file for incorporation.

Now this is truly "News for Nerds"

Speaking of, what the hell happened to the motto? When did that happen?

The summary is misleading. There's no "by appointment only" system. If you RTFA it says microsoft is releasing the API to all developers who have previously released apps. I don't think this is such a big "FU" to developers as you're making it out to be. If anything, they probably did it to reward early adopters which should be applauded. It's like saying "Hey, we're sorry we've gone and modified the entire API after you built an app so we're giving you a little extra time to upgrade your apps so that some other hot shot company can't come in and steal your product before you get a chance to upgrade". I see nothing wrong with this.

If the courses carry no credit, why do you care that they are plagiarizing? I'm not a fan of ripping others work but if professors can't develop unique questions then don't expect unique answers.

In unrelated news: Apple sued by DOJ for breaking anti-trust laws. Suit settled out of court for unknown damages.

....Soon thereafter, US Homeland Security Agency states "we have no more concerns regarding apple's encryption systems".

The algorithm was trying to optimize a model (i.e. find the maximum value attainable). The binomial or bisection method works well for linear and binomial equations but with polynomial equations, there can be multiple local min/max apexes in the curve. Using a binomial solver may work some of the time but often it will give a false positive by becoming "trapped" into a localized root and ignoring the larger, more optimal solution.

i work in Finance so perhaps I'm a little bit of an outlier but I use high-level mathematics every day. The other day I caught two programmers (who lacked mathematical backgrounds) attempting to use a binary solver to find a solution to a polynomial algorithm. They had spent two months of time and energy trying to figure out why their model sporadically failed. I had to pull a numerical methods textbook off the shelf and show them the Newton-Raphson iterative method.

You don't use it often but there are definitely occasions when a lack of understanding leads to pitfalls.

Firefox already uses more memory than any OS I own so what the hell, go for it. Maybe Windows 8 can become a light-weight browser that runs on top of it.

Sim City destroyed their brand with Sim City 3000. Like many simulation games, they focused too much on graphics and 3D imagery and compromised usability and basic game play. Sim City 2000 is still their best version and it was built in 1993. IMO they should return to a basic tile-based game engine and start over.